Open source projects have proliferated at an incredible rate over the last few years. While this is great news for innovation and technology accessibility, consuming all of these tools has become increasingly difficult. Learn how the OpenStack community are approaching this challenge to make it easier to turn open source into open infrastructure. Read more…

Jonathan Bryce, who has spent his career building the cloud, is Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation. Previously he was a founder of The Rackspace Cloud.

He started his career working as a web developer for Rackspace, and during his tenure, he and co-worker Todd Morey had a vision to build a sophisticated web hosting environment where users and businesses alike could turn to design, develop and deploy their ideal web site – all without being responsible for procuring the technology, installing it or making sure it is built to be always available. This vision became The Rackspace Cloud. Since then he has been a major driver of OpenStack, the open source cloud software initiative.

Jonathan Bryce

Executive Director, OpenStack Foundation

09:00
- 09:30

Keynote 1: Bringing Together Open Infrastructure for the World

Open source projects have proliferated at an incredible rate over the last few years. While this is great news for innovation and technology accessibility, consuming all of these tools has become increasingly difficult. Learn how the OpenStack community are approaching this challenge to make it easier to turn open source into open infrastructure. Read more…

Jonathan Bryce, who has spent his career building the cloud, is Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation. Previously he was a founder of The Rackspace Cloud.

He started his career working as a web developer for Rackspace, and during his tenure, he and co-worker Todd Morey had a vision to build a sophisticated web hosting environment where users and businesses alike could turn to design, develop and deploy their ideal web site – all without being responsible for procuring the technology, installing it or making sure it is built to be always available. This vision became The Rackspace Cloud. Since then he has been a major driver of OpenStack, the open source cloud software initiative.

Jonathan Bryce

Executive Director, OpenStack Foundation

09:00
- 09:30

Keynote 1: Bringing Together Open Infrastructure for the World

Open source projects have proliferated at an incredible rate over the last few years. While this is great news for innovation and technology accessibility, consuming all of these tools has become increasingly difficult. Learn how the OpenStack community are approaching this challenge to make it easier to turn open source into open infrastructure. Read more…

Jonathan Bryce, who has spent his career building the cloud, is Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation. Previously he was a founder of The Rackspace Cloud.

He started his career working as a web developer for Rackspace, and during his tenure, he and co-worker Todd Morey had a vision to build a sophisticated web hosting environment where users and businesses alike could turn to design, develop and deploy their ideal web site – all without being responsible for procuring the technology, installing it or making sure it is built to be always available. This vision became The Rackspace Cloud. Since then he has been a major driver of OpenStack, the open source cloud software initiative.

Jonathan Bryce

Executive Director, OpenStack Foundation

09:00
- 09:30

Keynote 1: Bringing Together Open Infrastructure for the World

Open source projects have proliferated at an incredible rate over the last few years. While this is great news for innovation and technology accessibility, consuming all of these tools has become increasingly difficult. Learn how the OpenStack community are approaching this challenge to make it easier to turn open source into open infrastructure. Read more…

Jonathan Bryce, who has spent his career building the cloud, is Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation. Previously he was a founder of The Rackspace Cloud.

He started his career working as a web developer for Rackspace, and during his tenure, he and co-worker Todd Morey had a vision to build a sophisticated web hosting environment where users and businesses alike could turn to design, develop and deploy their ideal web site – all without being responsible for procuring the technology, installing it or making sure it is built to be always available. This vision became The Rackspace Cloud. Since then he has been a major driver of OpenStack, the open source cloud software initiative.

Jonathan Bryce

Executive Director, OpenStack Foundation

09:30
- 10:00

Keynote 2: OpenStack, the heart of Software-Defined Infrastructure

It doesn’t seem that long ago that Cloud was deemed to be the future of IT, but as technology has evolved, so too has our vision of the future. A recent survey of IT decision makers revealed that 95% believe Software-Defined Infrastructure to be the future of the data centre. Join SUSE to hear about this evolution, and why OpenStack should be at the heart of your Software-Defined Infrastructure

I have over 20 years’ experience in the IT, cloud and hosting industry gained in a variety of roles spanning project management to product release and product marketing. I’m responsible for product marketing for SUSE OpenStack Cloud, and have been working with OpenStack since it was released in 2010. Outside of work, I enjoy running, cycling, great beer (craft, cask, keg – call it what you like as long as it tastes good), spending time with my family, playing the piano and charity fundraising – I’ve been supporting the Movember Foundation since 2006, and have run multiple races, climbed mountains and cycled around the UK for many charities over the years.

Matthew Johns

Product Marketing, SUSE

09:30
- 10:00

Keynote 2: OpenStack, the heart of Software-Defined Infrastructure

It doesn’t seem that long ago that Cloud was deemed to be the future of IT, but as technology has evolved, so too has our vision of the future. A recent survey of IT decision makers revealed that 95% believe Software-Defined Infrastructure to be the future of the data centre. Join SUSE to hear about this evolution, and why OpenStack should be at the heart of your Software-Defined Infrastructure

I have over 20 years’ experience in the IT, cloud and hosting industry gained in a variety of roles spanning project management to product release and product marketing. I’m responsible for product marketing for SUSE OpenStack Cloud, and have been working with OpenStack since it was released in 2010. Outside of work, I enjoy running, cycling, great beer (craft, cask, keg – call it what you like as long as it tastes good), spending time with my family, playing the piano and charity fundraising – I’ve been supporting the Movember Foundation since 2006, and have run multiple races, climbed mountains and cycled around the UK for many charities over the years.

Matthew Johns

Product Marketing, SUSE

09:30
- 10:00

Keynote 2: OpenStack, the heart of Software-Defined Infrastructure

It doesn’t seem that long ago that Cloud was deemed to be the future of IT, but as technology has evolved, so too has our vision of the future. A recent survey of IT decision makers revealed that 95% believe Software-Defined Infrastructure to be the future of the data centre. Join SUSE to hear about this evolution, and why OpenStack should be at the heart of your Software-Defined Infrastructure

I have over 20 years’ experience in the IT, cloud and hosting industry gained in a variety of roles spanning project management to product release and product marketing. I’m responsible for product marketing for SUSE OpenStack Cloud, and have been working with OpenStack since it was released in 2010. Outside of work, I enjoy running, cycling, great beer (craft, cask, keg – call it what you like as long as it tastes good), spending time with my family, playing the piano and charity fundraising – I’ve been supporting the Movember Foundation since 2006, and have run multiple races, climbed mountains and cycled around the UK for many charities over the years.

Matthew Johns

Product Marketing, SUSE

09:30
- 10:00

Keynote 2: OpenStack, the heart of Software-Defined Infrastructure

It doesn’t seem that long ago that Cloud was deemed to be the future of IT, but as technology has evolved, so too has our vision of the future. A recent survey of IT decision makers revealed that 95% believe Software-Defined Infrastructure to be the future of the data centre. Join SUSE to hear about this evolution, and why OpenStack should be at the heart of your Software-Defined Infrastructure

I have over 20 years’ experience in the IT, cloud and hosting industry gained in a variety of roles spanning project management to product release and product marketing. I’m responsible for product marketing for SUSE OpenStack Cloud, and have been working with OpenStack since it was released in 2010. Outside of work, I enjoy running, cycling, great beer (craft, cask, keg – call it what you like as long as it tastes good), spending time with my family, playing the piano and charity fundraising – I’ve been supporting the Movember Foundation since 2006, and have run multiple races, climbed mountains and cycled around the UK for many charities over the years.

Grzegorz Bielawski is responsible for distributing QNAP products in Poland, developing affiliate programs for integrators and resellers, managing pricing policy and arranging new partner cooperation. Grzegorz works in IT for nearly a decade – after finishing studies on Szczecin University of Technology (faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology) he started to work in EPA Systems where he was responsible for storage solutions and supporting QNAP brand in Poland (as product manager). He’s a proved IT expert with vast knowledge of technical novelties in storage segment.

Open vSwitch is a software that supports network connectivity to your instances. You simply install it, define few bridges and it works. But how does it provide such functionalities? Can we configure it to be faster?

During this presentation I will answer those questions. I will show how Open vSwitch performs in two different modes. The first one is using kernel and the second one is using DPDK for packets processing. We will talk about advantages and drawback for each of the modes. Moreover, I will present how to configure Neutron to utilize DPDK support in Open vSwitch. Read more…

Dawid Deja has over 4 years of experience with OpenStack. For the first 4 years of his career he was working at Intel where he was developing high availability of instances feature for about 2 years. Moreover, he was involved in projects regarding noisy neighbor detection and clouds benchmarking. This year he joined Ciklum/Telco Systems as NFV Infrastructure Engineer to help build NFV solution based on OpenStack.

Dawid has an engineering degree in IT from Gdańsk University of Technology in Poland. In his free time, he likes to drink and talk about beer, as well as to brew his own.

Ildikó started her journey with virtualization during the university years and has been in connection with this technology different ways since then. She started her career at a small research and development company in Budapest, where she was focusing on areas like system management and business process modeling and optimization. Ildikó got in touch with OpenStack when she started to work in the cloud project at Ericsson in 2013, she was a member of the Ceilometer and Aodh project core teams. She is now working for the OpenStack Foundation and she drives NFV related feature development activities in projects like Nova and Cinder, and beyond code and documentation contributions she is also very passionate about on boarding and training activities.

Kendall is an Upstream Developer Advocate at the OpenStack Foundation based in Seattle, WA. She first started working on Cinder and os-brick in the Liberty release and since then gotten involved in StoryBoard, the Women of OpenStack (WoO), the First Contact SIG, the Contributor Guide, and OpenStack Upstream Institute. She has also worked as an election official for TC and PTL elections (Pike-Rocky) and served as a track chair for the Barcelona, Boston, Sydney, and Vancouver summits.

When she is not evangelizing about the awesomeness of OpenStack, bringing people into the community, or working to make upstream development a friendlier place, she can be found reading Harry Potter, watching Doctor Who, or out on a photo taking adventure.

Networks for AI getting traction with workloads evolving for deep learning. Today’s AI networks needs high performance and needs all cloud related properties. On network side, the latest SDN revolution is centered on creating efficient virtualized data center networks using RDMA, VXLAN & EVPN. We will talk about AI network at the scale, performance, and cost advantages of using a modern controller-free virtualized network solution built on 100 Gigabit Ethernet switches with hardware based VXLAN Routing. We will explore the ease of automating such a network in an OpenStack environment and take you through a real world use case of using OpenStack Network Node bridging between a bare metal cloud (EVPN) and a fully virtualized cloud environments (orchestrated by Neutron). Read more…

Avi Alkobi is Director Ethernet Switching EMEA in Mellanox Technologies. For the past 8 years he has worked at Mellanox in various roles focusing on the Ethernet switch product line, first as a SW developer, then as a team leader of the infrastructure team responsible for the first Ethernet switch management infrastructure. More recently, he has worked as a senior application engineer supporting the field on post sales, pre sales and complex proof of concepts for E2E Ethernet and InfiniBand solutions. Before coming to Mellanox, he worked for five years at Comverse Technology and prior to this, in the Israeli security industry as a software developer. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and M.B.A from the Bar-Ilan University in Israel.

Load Balancing as a Service (LBaaS) implies supplying API to setup and manage LB service on demand which is service that distributes network/application traffic across a number of servers (application back ends). It is used for load sharing where each application back end node handles a small part of incoming requests, and HA malfunction application back end nodes are removed from the pool automatically. During presentation LBaaS solutions provided by OpenStack such as Neutron-LB, Octavia will be compared regarding functionality architecture and performance aspects. Custom solutions implemented with specific NFV requirements in mind will be also presented. Read more…

During years 2011-2014 Łukasz Deptuła was studying Computer Science on Gdańsk University of Technology focusing on algorythmic, networking and software development aspects.
First professional experience he got during internship at Intel in years 2013-2014 where he dived into OpenStack. Together with team they created tool for extended instances monitoring and advanced scheduling mechanisms basing on those metrics.
In 2015 Łukasz was working in RackScale Design project as Python developer further improving software development and architectural skills. He was working on certification tools development as Python developer and technical leader.

In 2016 Łukasz joined Cloud Native Solutions team in Samsung and started contribution to Samsung Cloud platform as OpenStack, SDN and Python expert.

Currently he is leading team responsible for loadbalacing solutions creation for telco with focus on client side implementation and support.

Łukasz Deptuła

Cloud Software Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute Poland

13:30
- 14:15

Storware vProtect – best in class VM backup for Open Virtualization Platforms

The presentation will cover all topics how vProtect integrates the world of open and commercial hypervisors as well as various storage targets and backup providers.
Most important parts of presentation are:

About product:
Storware vProtect is an enterprise backup solution for virtual environments. It enables agent-less backup of VMs running on open platforms such as Citrix XenServer , libvirt-based (stand-alone KVM/Xen), RHV/oVirt, KVM, KVM for IBMz, Proxmox, Nutanix AVH and Oracle VM. Using snapshot-based backup strategy, one can quickly backup not only data but also the configuration of the running virtual machines. Storware vProtect also provides easy to use CLI and web UI management interfaces. With multi-node architecture, it is easy to scale and protect several sites, while still using just a single console. vProtect also supports quiesced snapshots and enables file-level restore with mountable backups for selected platforms. Backups can be stored flexibly – starting from a simple file system (local or remote), S3 or Swift object storage or one of the enterprise-grade backup solutions such as IBM Spectrum Protect, Dell-EMC NetWorker or Veritas NetBackup. Depending on backup destination and setup, features such as tape backup, deduplication or replication also can be used. One can also easily exclude drives from backup and for Citrix or Nutanix platforms vProtect supports incremental backups (and CBT). The solution extends capabilities of all above backup providers by delivering comprehensive and scalable protection for all supported hypervisor environments. Read more…

Marcin, sometimes called Mr.V., as a an inventor of Software vProtect code, joined the company in 2015. He has been working for IBM and Citibank where he gained experience in virtualization, and middleware technologies, and obtained several certifications. In 2016 Marcin earned a Ph.D. at his Warsaw University of Technology. He spends his free time taking photos and playing guitar.

Ildikó started her journey with virtualization during the university years and has been in connection with this technology different ways since then. She started her career at a small research and development company in Budapest, where she was focusing on areas like system management and business process modeling and optimization. Ildikó got in touch with OpenStack when she started to work in the cloud project at Ericsson in 2013, she was a member of the Ceilometer and Aodh project core teams. She is now working for the OpenStack Foundation and she drives NFV related feature development activities in projects like Nova and Cinder, and beyond code and documentation contributions she is also very passionate about on boarding and training activities.

Kendall is an Upstream Developer Advocate at the OpenStack Foundation based in Seattle, WA. She first started working on Cinder and os-brick in the Liberty release and since then gotten involved in StoryBoard, the Women of OpenStack (WoO), the First Contact SIG, the Contributor Guide, and OpenStack Upstream Institute. She has also worked as an election official for TC and PTL elections (Pike-Rocky) and served as a track chair for the Barcelona, Boston, Sydney, and Vancouver summits.

When she is not evangelizing about the awesomeness of OpenStack, bringing people into the community, or working to make upstream development a friendlier place, she can be found reading Harry Potter, watching Doctor Who, or out on a photo taking adventure.

Involved professionally with the IT sector since 2006. His professional career he has commenced as IT systems’ administrator, currently experienced Project Manager with analytical business skills specialising in Hybrid IT and DevOps solutions for the insurance sector and the public sector.

Rafał commands over 10 years’ of practical experience in realising IT projects in connection with the provision of advanced hardware and software solutions for small, medium and large-sized companies. His unique knowledge is supported by numerous certificates, among others. Master Accredited System Engineer provided by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) or Certified Associate in Project Management – Project Management Institute. A visionary and a committed leader, who provides a helping hand in filling in the gaps between business and technology, qualified in all phases of the development cycle starting from the initial phase / costs’ definition and generation of requirements, through designing, resourcing, development, testing, training and implementation.

At ESKOM company, he assists clients in making their choices and in implementing the most optimal IT solutions for their business sector.

He graduated from the Technical University of Kraków as electric and computer engineer, as well as from the SGH Warsaw School of Economics where he has completed postgraduate studies in IT management of corporations.

Rafał Skóra

Senior IT Project Manager / Solution Architect, Eskom

14:15
- 15:00

Platform Intelligence solutions for OpenStack

Cloud native applications intend to provide much more flexibility than legacy application by operating on an elastic infrastructure and supporting additional features like scaling, alerting and failover. However, implementing these features based on manual operations is error prone and require administration effort. To make them automatic, and to follow Autonomic Computing principles including as Self-Defining, Context-Aware, Self-Configuring, Self-Healing, Self-Optimizing, and Self-Protecting, additional services have to be integrated into the platform. During presentation, we will focus on several use cases including predictive auto-scaling, storage space prediction and noisy neighbor detection will be discussed in relate to machine learning models oriented towards operational intelligence. In additional, Openstack services like Senlin, Aodh and Vitrage will be compared. Read more…

Dariusz Król joined Samsung R&D institute in Poland, Krakow in 2016 as a Senior Cloud and Big Data Architect. His current activities involves development of Database as a Service solution based on Openstack Trove, while in recent past he was also involved in various projects oriented towards analytical use cases. He is a Ph.D. in computer science since 2014 with specialization in scalability, data management and cloud and grid technologies. In 2014-2015, he was a postdoc at University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, where he participated in the PANORAMA (Predictive Modeling and Diagnostic Monitoring of Extreme Science Workflows) project, where he was responsible for performance monitoring and analysis of large-scale scientific workflows. Before joining Samsung Electronics, he was an assistant professor at AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland and a specialist at ACC Cyfronet AGH, which is the biggest academic computer center in Poland. He was involved in a number of international and national scientific projects regarding large scale computational infrastructure, data analysis, resource management and parallel computing. He is co-author of over 50 scientific articles published in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences proceedings.

Senior Systems Engineer with enterprise virtualization, containerization, private/public cloud and DevOps tools skillset. He was involved in a number of national-wide systems, now using that expertise to deploy, maintain and automate large-scale enterprise systems.

Ildikó started her journey with virtualization during the university years and has been in connection with this technology different ways since then. She started her career at a small research and development company in Budapest, where she was focusing on areas like system management and business process modeling and optimization. Ildikó got in touch with OpenStack when she started to work in the cloud project at Ericsson in 2013, she was a member of the Ceilometer and Aodh project core teams. She is now working for the OpenStack Foundation and she drives NFV related feature development activities in projects like Nova and Cinder, and beyond code and documentation contributions she is also very passionate about on boarding and training activities.

Kendall is an Upstream Developer Advocate at the OpenStack Foundation based in Seattle, WA. She first started working on Cinder and os-brick in the Liberty release and since then gotten involved in StoryBoard, the Women of OpenStack (WoO), the First Contact SIG, the Contributor Guide, and OpenStack Upstream Institute. She has also worked as an election official for TC and PTL elections (Pike-Rocky) and served as a track chair for the Barcelona, Boston, Sydney, and Vancouver summits.

When she is not evangelizing about the awesomeness of OpenStack, bringing people into the community, or working to make upstream development a friendlier place, she can be found reading Harry Potter, watching Doctor Who, or out on a photo taking adventure.

The OpenStack I18n is one of the biggest team in the OpenStack community. The people are mostly located in non-english speaking countries in different timezones around the planet. You can imagine, diversity is one of the main topics in our team. Different cultures, and different languages. How to manage this? The story goes back from the beginning as a contributor and the work as Project Team Lead in the last cycle.

Translating things in OpenStack are not only human work. It gives an insight into the technology behind it and a fully automatic deployment.

What Should Attendees Expect to Learn?

Join the OpenStack community as a contributor in a simply way: as a Translator. This session shows how it works. It will introduce the team with their work and tools. You can learn to work in a global community and transfer the working methods to your local team. Read more…

Frank Kloeker works at Deutsche Telekom as a Technology Manager for cloud applications. He is experienced in Cloud for 7 years, IT for 21 years and 31 years for Operations.

His active time in OpenStack Community began in 2015. He is one of active German translators in OpenStack I18n team, and also he contributes I18n toolings with puppet scripts for translation platform upgrade and translation checksite. Frank is currently PTL.

The Enterprise Working Group is his second workstream in the OpenStack Community. Target of this working group is to identify and remove barriers to Enterprise adoption and deployments of OpenStack because Frank worked in application operation for internet platforms for many years.

Third thing, he invented the Cloud-Kindergarten of Deutsche Telekom 2016. Young people like apprentices and students are trained on production platforms in OpenStack Operations and learning modern Cloud technologies and working in global teams.

Frank Kloeker

Technology Manager, Deutsche Telekom

16:00
- 16:45

Cluster management made doable

When it comes to managing a bunch of virtual servers like one resource, the market offers countless solutions like Heat, Senlin, Cloudify, Terraform etc. Yet, when faced with a challenge to pick one, that would suit our needs we found ourselves in quite a predicament. At DreamLab we are in charge of thousands of short-lived servers and we would like to manage clusters of servers in both our own infrastructure based on OpenStack as well as in the public cloud ecosystem where we use APIs. Our search for a scalable, plugin-oriented solution that allows for regular health checks, led us to create our own application that we’re releasing for the community to use.
In our presentation, we will go through available market solutions, our own choices and finally, we will show you tools that do the trick, so you can learn from it and manage your own servers efficiently, regardless of your IaaS.

A System Designer at DreamLab, with 12 years of experience in building core systems for Grupa Onet-RAS Polska and DreamLab.

24 hours is never enough to do eveything he should and/or would like to do. Dominik keeps finding more and more interesting things to learn, install or develop. His career included periods with more focus on programming and times with a bigger focus on system building and maintenance. He started his IT adventure by working on internal systems and AOL Server modules. He had a brief encounter with Perl and has spent some more time with C/C++, but now his heart is with Python.
Quite a large part of his working time he deals with object storage based on CEPH, IaaS built on OpenNebula and OpenStack solutions. Currently he is working on developing PaaS orchestration and monitoring system.

Krzysztof has over 12 years of professional experience. He started his technical journey with desktop ERP applications (C++, Delphi), then moved on to webapps (price comparison service, retail) mostly in Python and Ruby. Later it was the cloud that caught his attention for about 4 years so he focused on cloud machinery and developing private cloud. He gained administration skills (and patience) while managing a Novel-based network and then FreeBSD and Linux (system of choice) clusters. Whenever possible he tries to avoid hardware-ops tasks with, however, with little success so far, and still doesn’t remember MegaCli switches. In the meantime, he tests everything available from HN. Currently, as a System Designer at DreamLab Krzysztof is responsible for PaaS orchestration and a monitoring system.

Krzysztof Warunek

System Designer, DreamLab

16:00
- 16:45

Database as a Service solutions with OpenStack Trove

Databases are crucial and ubiquities elements of most applications running in the cloud. However, database management in single- or multi-node deployment scenarios requires expertise and deep understanding of the underlying infrastructure. The main goal of Database as a Service (DBaaS) is to deliver a service responsible for on-demand provisioning and management of various database management systems including SQL and NoSQL databases. Provided functionality of the service includes: provisioning of single and multi-instance deployments, scaling (out, up and in), backing up and recovery, and failover support with HA. During the presentation a DBaaS solution based on Openstack Trove will be described in the context of MariaDB, Cassandra and Redis. Comparisons against other solutions such as AWS RDS will be also discussed. Read more…

Computer science graduate at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow. During the studies and after graduation, closely associated with the IT industry.

He has 4 years of professional experience. At first worked as software engineer designing microservice-based applications for advertising companies. Later responsible for administration of virtual resource infrastructure in AWS cloud and deploying architectural components related to monitoring and centralized logging.

More than a year ago started the journey with OpenStack at Samsung R&D, working on a cloud project as a member of the core team building the Database as a Service platform for 5G requirements. He actively participates in the development of OpenStack Trove by enhancing its features in the scope of automated database provisioning, cluster management and data recovery. Broad database experience allows him to elaborate advanced solutions oriented to provide high data capacity and availability.

At the same time, he is pursuing a PhD in computer science in the field of NFV and multi-site cloud computing. As part of this venture, he had the opportunity to gain knowledge about a wide range of native cloud technologies, as well as interact with exotic OpenStack initiatives such as: Tacker, Trio2o and Tricircle.

Bartosz Żurkowski

Cloud and Big Data Engineer, Samsung

16:45
- 17:30

The road to OpenStack at UK largest Academic private cloud system: University of Edinburgh

This presentation aims to talk about the UK’s largest academic private cloud in production: University of Edinburgh’s OpenStack system.

The biggest challenge we faced was to be able to provide the University’s researchers with a more flexible self-served computing services. The OpenStack-based private cloud solution proposed by Sardina Systems was operational within 8 weeks from commencement of design process.

In the presentation we plan to cover the following for our audience:
– the predefined constrains that came from the university’s side
– the solution we have proposed to the university, compasing all 3 phases of OpenStack: deploy, operate and upgrade
– the benefits of getting an OpenStack-based private cloud system in the academic sector Read more…

Dr Kenneth Tan has been in the large scale systems sector for 18+ years.

At Sardina Systems, Kenneth leads a highly talented product development team, experienced in developing software targeting some of the largest supercomputers in the world, now building OpenStack automation software, to optimize OpenStack cloud operations.

He was previously with CloudFabriQ, BNP Paribas, OptimaNumerics, in product development and business development roles, involving products and services sold to major data center operators in automotive, energy, defence, meteo, finance. He has led teams in UK, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Germany.

Dr Kenneth Tan

Sardina Systems

16:45
- 17:30

How to become OpenStack upstream developer – introduction and useful tips.

This presentation will bring you closer to the OpenStack community collaboration aspects.

As a core contributor to the neutron project I will give useful tips on how You can contribute to the OpenStack and what can be done to make code changes being approved and merged quickly.

Reshaping code is fun, but with support of useful tools it’s even greater joy, which you will learn during this talk from the OpenStack developer perspective. Read more…

In 2010 Slawek joined OVH first as 1st line of technical support and in 2013 became devops engineer in Public Cloud R&D team where he was involved in development of OpenStack-based Public Cloud service.
Since 2015 he is also active contributor and reviewer of OpenStack Neutron and OpenStack Shade/SDK projects as well as leader of Neutron QoS subteam.
In December 2017 he started serving OpenStack community as member of Neutron and SDK core reviewers teams.
He was welcome to Red Hat family in April 2018, where he works as senior software engineer and continues to develop networking solutions for OpenStack.

BlackStor is a DRBD-based Software Defined Storage (not just) for OpenStack, which was created and put into production by PROZETA working closely together with DRBD’s creators at LINBIT. Learn more about why to use SDS based on open-source technology which is backed by more than 10 years of development and over 250.000 successful installations. Read more…

Michal is an expert with more than 10 years of experience in cloud, infrastructure and content distribution services.

He served various positions in the field including Operations Director of Stream.cz, Operations Director at Uloz.to and SVP Online Services at Visual Unity. Michal is focused mainly on project and product management, operations, customer service and new business development.

Michal is an expert with more than 10 years of experience in cloud, infrastructure and content distribution services.

Intel Rack Scale design (RSD) is an industry blueprint of the concept known as _composable disaggregated infrastructure_. Unlike traditional servers, the RSD hardware resources like accelerators or network interfaces are not tightly tied to each server node. Instead, they are pooled together in the _resource pools_, and dynamically attached to the compute nodes when needed.

This presentation will introduce the audience to the Rack Scale Design and demonstrate the dynamic attachment of disaggregated resources to the node. Depending on the workload’s requirements, the PCIe Network Interface Card or the NVMe-over-Fabric volume will be attached to the compute node automatically – with no human intervention. Besides the demo, the presenter will show the implementation details and share the plans of upstreaming this integration. Read more…

Szymon has been working at Intel in cloud computing software since 2014. During that time, he was an OpenStack upstream contributor in Cinder (Quota API, Oslo-versioned objects) and Ironic (PCI devices recognition) projects. Besides upstreaming, he has also driven some projects around OpenStack, including enabling Intel Visual Compute Accelerator card in OpenStack with Ironic.

Recently, Szymon has become a member of Intel Rack Scale Design team and already contributed to performance improvement of testing environment, which speeded up most validation tests. Due to his experience with OpenStack, he got involved in introducing Intel Rack Scale Design volume driver for Cinder to enable NVMeoF volumes attachment in OpenStack environment.

In free time, his hobby is music – he sings well, plays piano and organ. He even took part in TV singing show, where he achieved high place.

Making OpenStack a commercial product is a big challenge. Each source code modification should be thoroughly tested and verified. OpenStack with such modifications should be continuously deployed in order to assure that the product is operational and fulfills all requirements. The challenge is even bigger when you have to maintain several EOL releases. This would not be possible without a reliable CI/CD system. In this presentation, the approach to building such CI/CD system will be presented. The talk will cover approach to commit verification, OpenStack packages building, creating release packages and testing them using tempest project on an automatically deployed commercial-grade OpenStack infrastructure. Full flow from single commit to final release will be discussed together with issues and challenges that the CI/CD developers face during their daily work. Read more…

Rafał is a CI/CD and Release Engineer at Samsung R&D Institute Poland. He has been working with OpenStack for more than 2 years, starting from Kilo release, through Mitaka release and lately Ocata release. He works on commercial product for telecommunications industry and on CI/CD environment required to ship this product.

After work, he enjoys spending his time with family and occasionally dancing Argentine tango.

Rafał Czubak

CI/CD and Release Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute Poland

10:30
- 11:15

Going into inevitable – Cells v2

Many releases ago nova introduced cells as a way to scale an environment out. Primary idea behind this feature was to have multiple message queues and databases to distribute load a bit better. The feature was marked as an experimental and it never changed its state, as there was always tons of other work with higher priority. However, after many releases, the original nova flow was ‘redesigned’, so that Cells v2 are now the only way to deploy nova.

Going through the topic, I’ll start with a brief description of nova cells v1 to shed some light on the idea behind the feature. Then I will tell you what nova cells v2 brings, how it changes behavior of running OpenStack environment and potential pitfalls that one might find. Read more…

Pawel is a Senior NFV Infrastracture Engineer working for TelcoSystems company. He started his work around 5 years ago and for all this time works with OpenStack. For a couple of releases Pawel was an active contributor to nova project where he mainly focused on live migration. Now he is not an upstream contributor, but instead he focuses on OpenStack-based projects to integrate them in a best possible way into a cloud.

Paweł Koniszewski

Senior NFV Infrastracture Engineer, TelcoSystems

11:15
- 11:45

Coffee break

11:15
- 11:45

Coffee break

11:45
- 12:30

Kuryr-Kubernetes – Neutron networking for K8s

Kuryr-Kubernetes is an OpenStack ecosystem project that delivers OpenStack Neutron networking to Kubernetes pods and services. During this presentation we’ll talk about Kubernetes networking layer, its limitations and use cases where utilizing Kuryr for networking is beneficial. After the basics we’ll take a look under the Kuryr hood and learn how does it work to provide network to the pods. We’ll also discuss limitations that Kuryr still has, their causes and ideas to solve them in the upstream community. Read more…

Michał is software engineer working at Red Hat and engaged in OpenStack-related activities since Folsom release. Through Newton, Ocata and Pike cycles he was serving the OpenStack community as a core reviewer in Cinder, where he focused on control plane availability, scalability and upgradability. Now he’s cracking similar problems in Kuryr project where he’s again a core reviewer.

His professional interests are: HA solutions, cluster management and building reliable distributed systems.

Michał Dulko

Software engineer, Red Hat

11:45
- 12:30

Rapid and Easy Deployment of Oracle DB12c and RAC in OpenStack

During the session attendees will find out why more and more companies are adopting OpenStack platform. The session will contain an overview of Oracle OpenStack solution and show how OpenStack Murano simplifies and speeds up the deployment of Oracle DB12c and RAC. Read more…

Michal is part of Oracle Open Cloud Infrastructure team responsible for providing technical support for Oracle Linux, Oracle VM, VirtualBox and Oracle OpenStack products.

He has over 10 years of experience in designing and deploying various services based on applications that originated from OpenSource projects.

Before joining Oracle, Michal has worked in large company environments – such as Huawei, Citrix – and Silicon Valley startups – such as ByteMobile, where he completed a range of technical and managerial roles.

I am the Cloud Architect. I have worked with many Companies across Europe, Asia and Africa, helping them to shape their Private, Public and Telco Clouds. I support my Customers in Architecting Cloud Solutions, but also in Business Aspects of Cloud Transformation.

I am a Certified OpenStack Administrator.

I have studied Computer Science, focusing on Operating Systems.

I have 25+ years of experience in IT Industry, working at Companies like Sun Microsystems, NetApp, Citrix or Huawei.

Krzysztof Celmer

Cloud Architect

13:15
- 14:00

Cybersecurity and threat hunting automation in an OpenStack private cloud

Security monitoring of heavily distributed network environment has always been challenging. OpenStack based network environments are not different. Monitoring, threat detection and analysis in the network underlay and overlay with heavily varying network patterns, all this adds complexity to threat detection and threat hunting. This talk focuses on an open source based solutions for effective security monitoring, examples of monitoring solutions architectures, providing proposals for DevOps and SecOps automation approaches. Read more…

Mr. Heczko helps build OpenStack clouds as a Principal Security Architect at Mirantis. He is a systems engineer in the Mirantis Cloud Platform with a focus on improving information security in OpenStack deployments. He holds multiple (ISC) 2 certifications and has helped multiple Mirantis customers to secure their virtualized Linux environments.

Outside OpenStack, Mr. Heczko has contributed to several open-source projects including Kubernetes and is a member of Kubernetes Vulnerability Management Team. He enjoys spending his free time with his wife and children cycling and traveling.

Adam Heczko

Security Engineer, Mirantis Inc.

14:00
- 14:30

Closing of the conference

14:00
- 14:30

Closing of the conference

Business path

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Upstream

I technical path

II technical path

08:00
- 09:00

Registration

08:00
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Registration

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Registration

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Registration

09:00
- 09:30

Keynote 1: Bringing Together Open Infrastructure for the World

Open source projects have proliferated at an incredible rate over the last few years. While this is great news for innovation and technology accessibility, consuming all of these tools has become increasingly difficult. Learn how the OpenStack community are approaching this challenge to make it easier to turn open source into open infrastructure. Read more…

Jonathan Bryce, who has spent his career building the cloud, is Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation. Previously he was a founder of The Rackspace Cloud.

He started his career working as a web developer for Rackspace, and during his tenure, he and co-worker Todd Morey had a vision to build a sophisticated web hosting environment where users and businesses alike could turn to design, develop and deploy their ideal web site – all without being responsible for procuring the technology, installing it or making sure it is built to be always available. This vision became The Rackspace Cloud. Since then he has been a major driver of OpenStack, the open source cloud software initiative.

Jonathan Bryce

Executive Director, OpenStack Foundation

09:00
- 09:30

Keynote 1: Bringing Together Open Infrastructure for the World

Open source projects have proliferated at an incredible rate over the last few years. While this is great news for innovation and technology accessibility, consuming all of these tools has become increasingly difficult. Learn how the OpenStack community are approaching this challenge to make it easier to turn open source into open infrastructure. Read more…

Jonathan Bryce, who has spent his career building the cloud, is Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation. Previously he was a founder of The Rackspace Cloud.

He started his career working as a web developer for Rackspace, and during his tenure, he and co-worker Todd Morey had a vision to build a sophisticated web hosting environment where users and businesses alike could turn to design, develop and deploy their ideal web site – all without being responsible for procuring the technology, installing it or making sure it is built to be always available. This vision became The Rackspace Cloud. Since then he has been a major driver of OpenStack, the open source cloud software initiative.

Jonathan Bryce

Executive Director, OpenStack Foundation

09:00
- 09:30

Keynote 1: Bringing Together Open Infrastructure for the World

Open source projects have proliferated at an incredible rate over the last few years. While this is great news for innovation and technology accessibility, consuming all of these tools has become increasingly difficult. Learn how the OpenStack community are approaching this challenge to make it easier to turn open source into open infrastructure. Read more…

Jonathan Bryce, who has spent his career building the cloud, is Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation. Previously he was a founder of The Rackspace Cloud.

He started his career working as a web developer for Rackspace, and during his tenure, he and co-worker Todd Morey had a vision to build a sophisticated web hosting environment where users and businesses alike could turn to design, develop and deploy their ideal web site – all without being responsible for procuring the technology, installing it or making sure it is built to be always available. This vision became The Rackspace Cloud. Since then he has been a major driver of OpenStack, the open source cloud software initiative.

Jonathan Bryce

Executive Director, OpenStack Foundation

09:00
- 09:30

Keynote 1: Bringing Together Open Infrastructure for the World

Open source projects have proliferated at an incredible rate over the last few years. While this is great news for innovation and technology accessibility, consuming all of these tools has become increasingly difficult. Learn how the OpenStack community are approaching this challenge to make it easier to turn open source into open infrastructure. Read more…

Jonathan Bryce, who has spent his career building the cloud, is Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation. Previously he was a founder of The Rackspace Cloud.

He started his career working as a web developer for Rackspace, and during his tenure, he and co-worker Todd Morey had a vision to build a sophisticated web hosting environment where users and businesses alike could turn to design, develop and deploy their ideal web site – all without being responsible for procuring the technology, installing it or making sure it is built to be always available. This vision became The Rackspace Cloud. Since then he has been a major driver of OpenStack, the open source cloud software initiative.

Jonathan Bryce

Executive Director, OpenStack Foundation

09:30
- 10:00

Keynote 2: OpenStack, the heart of Software-Defined Infrastructure

It doesn’t seem that long ago that Cloud was deemed to be the future of IT, but as technology has evolved, so too has our vision of the future. A recent survey of IT decision makers revealed that 95% believe Software-Defined Infrastructure to be the future of the data centre. Join SUSE to hear about this evolution, and why OpenStack should be at the heart of your Software-Defined Infrastructure

I have over 20 years’ experience in the IT, cloud and hosting industry gained in a variety of roles spanning project management to product release and product marketing. I’m responsible for product marketing for SUSE OpenStack Cloud, and have been working with OpenStack since it was released in 2010. Outside of work, I enjoy running, cycling, great beer (craft, cask, keg – call it what you like as long as it tastes good), spending time with my family, playing the piano and charity fundraising – I’ve been supporting the Movember Foundation since 2006, and have run multiple races, climbed mountains and cycled around the UK for many charities over the years.

Matthew Johns

Product Marketing, SUSE

09:30
- 10:00

Keynote 2: OpenStack, the heart of Software-Defined Infrastructure

It doesn’t seem that long ago that Cloud was deemed to be the future of IT, but as technology has evolved, so too has our vision of the future. A recent survey of IT decision makers revealed that 95% believe Software-Defined Infrastructure to be the future of the data centre. Join SUSE to hear about this evolution, and why OpenStack should be at the heart of your Software-Defined Infrastructure

I have over 20 years’ experience in the IT, cloud and hosting industry gained in a variety of roles spanning project management to product release and product marketing. I’m responsible for product marketing for SUSE OpenStack Cloud, and have been working with OpenStack since it was released in 2010. Outside of work, I enjoy running, cycling, great beer (craft, cask, keg – call it what you like as long as it tastes good), spending time with my family, playing the piano and charity fundraising – I’ve been supporting the Movember Foundation since 2006, and have run multiple races, climbed mountains and cycled around the UK for many charities over the years.

Matthew Johns

Product Marketing, SUSE

09:30
- 10:00

Keynote 2: OpenStack, the heart of Software-Defined Infrastructure

It doesn’t seem that long ago that Cloud was deemed to be the future of IT, but as technology has evolved, so too has our vision of the future. A recent survey of IT decision makers revealed that 95% believe Software-Defined Infrastructure to be the future of the data centre. Join SUSE to hear about this evolution, and why OpenStack should be at the heart of your Software-Defined Infrastructure

I have over 20 years’ experience in the IT, cloud and hosting industry gained in a variety of roles spanning project management to product release and product marketing. I’m responsible for product marketing for SUSE OpenStack Cloud, and have been working with OpenStack since it was released in 2010. Outside of work, I enjoy running, cycling, great beer (craft, cask, keg – call it what you like as long as it tastes good), spending time with my family, playing the piano and charity fundraising – I’ve been supporting the Movember Foundation since 2006, and have run multiple races, climbed mountains and cycled around the UK for many charities over the years.

Matthew Johns

Product Marketing, SUSE

09:30
- 10:00

Keynote 2: OpenStack, the heart of Software-Defined Infrastructure

It doesn’t seem that long ago that Cloud was deemed to be the future of IT, but as technology has evolved, so too has our vision of the future. A recent survey of IT decision makers revealed that 95% believe Software-Defined Infrastructure to be the future of the data centre. Join SUSE to hear about this evolution, and why OpenStack should be at the heart of your Software-Defined Infrastructure

I have over 20 years’ experience in the IT, cloud and hosting industry gained in a variety of roles spanning project management to product release and product marketing. I’m responsible for product marketing for SUSE OpenStack Cloud, and have been working with OpenStack since it was released in 2010. Outside of work, I enjoy running, cycling, great beer (craft, cask, keg – call it what you like as long as it tastes good), spending time with my family, playing the piano and charity fundraising – I’ve been supporting the Movember Foundation since 2006, and have run multiple races, climbed mountains and cycled around the UK for many charities over the years.

Grzegorz Bielawski is responsible for distributing QNAP products in Poland, developing affiliate programs for integrators and resellers, managing pricing policy and arranging new partner cooperation. Grzegorz works in IT for nearly a decade – after finishing studies on Szczecin University of Technology (faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology) he started to work in EPA Systems where he was responsible for storage solutions and supporting QNAP brand in Poland (as product manager). He’s a proved IT expert with vast knowledge of technical novelties in storage segment.

Open vSwitch is a software that supports network connectivity to your instances. You simply install it, define few bridges and it works. But how does it provide such functionalities? Can we configure it to be faster?

During this presentation I will answer those questions. I will show how Open vSwitch performs in two different modes. The first one is using kernel and the second one is using DPDK for packets processing. We will talk about advantages and drawback for each of the modes. Moreover, I will present how to configure Neutron to utilize DPDK support in Open vSwitch. Read more…

Dawid Deja has over 4 years of experience with OpenStack. For the first 4 years of his career he was working at Intel where he was developing high availability of instances feature for about 2 years. Moreover, he was involved in projects regarding noisy neighbor detection and clouds benchmarking. This year he joined Ciklum/Telco Systems as NFV Infrastructure Engineer to help build NFV solution based on OpenStack.

Dawid has an engineering degree in IT from Gdańsk University of Technology in Poland. In his free time, he likes to drink and talk about beer, as well as to brew his own.

Ildikó started her journey with virtualization during the university years and has been in connection with this technology different ways since then. She started her career at a small research and development company in Budapest, where she was focusing on areas like system management and business process modeling and optimization. Ildikó got in touch with OpenStack when she started to work in the cloud project at Ericsson in 2013, she was a member of the Ceilometer and Aodh project core teams. She is now working for the OpenStack Foundation and she drives NFV related feature development activities in projects like Nova and Cinder, and beyond code and documentation contributions she is also very passionate about on boarding and training activities.

Kendall is an Upstream Developer Advocate at the OpenStack Foundation based in Seattle, WA. She first started working on Cinder and os-brick in the Liberty release and since then gotten involved in StoryBoard, the Women of OpenStack (WoO), the First Contact SIG, the Contributor Guide, and OpenStack Upstream Institute. She has also worked as an election official for TC and PTL elections (Pike-Rocky) and served as a track chair for the Barcelona, Boston, Sydney, and Vancouver summits.

When she is not evangelizing about the awesomeness of OpenStack, bringing people into the community, or working to make upstream development a friendlier place, she can be found reading Harry Potter, watching Doctor Who, or out on a photo taking adventure.

Networks for AI getting traction with workloads evolving for deep learning. Today’s AI networks needs high performance and needs all cloud related properties. On network side, the latest SDN revolution is centered on creating efficient virtualized data center networks using RDMA, VXLAN & EVPN. We will talk about AI network at the scale, performance, and cost advantages of using a modern controller-free virtualized network solution built on 100 Gigabit Ethernet switches with hardware based VXLAN Routing. We will explore the ease of automating such a network in an OpenStack environment and take you through a real world use case of using OpenStack Network Node bridging between a bare metal cloud (EVPN) and a fully virtualized cloud environments (orchestrated by Neutron). Read more…

Avi Alkobi is Director Ethernet Switching EMEA in Mellanox Technologies. For the past 8 years he has worked at Mellanox in various roles focusing on the Ethernet switch product line, first as a SW developer, then as a team leader of the infrastructure team responsible for the first Ethernet switch management infrastructure. More recently, he has worked as a senior application engineer supporting the field on post sales, pre sales and complex proof of concepts for E2E Ethernet and InfiniBand solutions. Before coming to Mellanox, he worked for five years at Comverse Technology and prior to this, in the Israeli security industry as a software developer. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and M.B.A from the Bar-Ilan University in Israel.

Load Balancing as a Service (LBaaS) implies supplying API to setup and manage LB service on demand which is service that distributes network/application traffic across a number of servers (application back ends). It is used for load sharing where each application back end node handles a small part of incoming requests, and HA malfunction application back end nodes are removed from the pool automatically. During presentation LBaaS solutions provided by OpenStack such as Neutron-LB, Octavia will be compared regarding functionality architecture and performance aspects. Custom solutions implemented with specific NFV requirements in mind will be also presented. Read more…

During years 2011-2014 Łukasz Deptuła was studying Computer Science on Gdańsk University of Technology focusing on algorythmic, networking and software development aspects.
First professional experience he got during internship at Intel in years 2013-2014 where he dived into OpenStack. Together with team they created tool for extended instances monitoring and advanced scheduling mechanisms basing on those metrics.
In 2015 Łukasz was working in RackScale Design project as Python developer further improving software development and architectural skills. He was working on certification tools development as Python developer and technical leader.

In 2016 Łukasz joined Cloud Native Solutions team in Samsung and started contribution to Samsung Cloud platform as OpenStack, SDN and Python expert.

Currently he is leading team responsible for loadbalacing solutions creation for telco with focus on client side implementation and support.

Łukasz Deptuła

Cloud Software Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute Poland

13:30
- 14:15

Storware vProtect – best in class VM backup for Open Virtualization Platforms

The presentation will cover all topics how vProtect integrates the world of open and commercial hypervisors as well as various storage targets and backup providers.
Most important parts of presentation are:

About product:
Storware vProtect is an enterprise backup solution for virtual environments. It enables agent-less backup of VMs running on open platforms such as Citrix XenServer , libvirt-based (stand-alone KVM/Xen), RHV/oVirt, KVM, KVM for IBMz, Proxmox, Nutanix AVH and Oracle VM. Using snapshot-based backup strategy, one can quickly backup not only data but also the configuration of the running virtual machines. Storware vProtect also provides easy to use CLI and web UI management interfaces. With multi-node architecture, it is easy to scale and protect several sites, while still using just a single console. vProtect also supports quiesced snapshots and enables file-level restore with mountable backups for selected platforms. Backups can be stored flexibly – starting from a simple file system (local or remote), S3 or Swift object storage or one of the enterprise-grade backup solutions such as IBM Spectrum Protect, Dell-EMC NetWorker or Veritas NetBackup. Depending on backup destination and setup, features such as tape backup, deduplication or replication also can be used. One can also easily exclude drives from backup and for Citrix or Nutanix platforms vProtect supports incremental backups (and CBT). The solution extends capabilities of all above backup providers by delivering comprehensive and scalable protection for all supported hypervisor environments. Read more…

Marcin, sometimes called Mr.V., as a an inventor of Software vProtect code, joined the company in 2015. He has been working for IBM and Citibank where he gained experience in virtualization, and middleware technologies, and obtained several certifications. In 2016 Marcin earned a Ph.D. at his Warsaw University of Technology. He spends his free time taking photos and playing guitar.

Ildikó started her journey with virtualization during the university years and has been in connection with this technology different ways since then. She started her career at a small research and development company in Budapest, where she was focusing on areas like system management and business process modeling and optimization. Ildikó got in touch with OpenStack when she started to work in the cloud project at Ericsson in 2013, she was a member of the Ceilometer and Aodh project core teams. She is now working for the OpenStack Foundation and she drives NFV related feature development activities in projects like Nova and Cinder, and beyond code and documentation contributions she is also very passionate about on boarding and training activities.

Kendall is an Upstream Developer Advocate at the OpenStack Foundation based in Seattle, WA. She first started working on Cinder and os-brick in the Liberty release and since then gotten involved in StoryBoard, the Women of OpenStack (WoO), the First Contact SIG, the Contributor Guide, and OpenStack Upstream Institute. She has also worked as an election official for TC and PTL elections (Pike-Rocky) and served as a track chair for the Barcelona, Boston, Sydney, and Vancouver summits.

When she is not evangelizing about the awesomeness of OpenStack, bringing people into the community, or working to make upstream development a friendlier place, she can be found reading Harry Potter, watching Doctor Who, or out on a photo taking adventure.

Involved professionally with the IT sector since 2006. His professional career he has commenced as IT systems’ administrator, currently experienced Project Manager with analytical business skills specialising in Hybrid IT and DevOps solutions for the insurance sector and the public sector.

Rafał commands over 10 years’ of practical experience in realising IT projects in connection with the provision of advanced hardware and software solutions for small, medium and large-sized companies. His unique knowledge is supported by numerous certificates, among others. Master Accredited System Engineer provided by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) or Certified Associate in Project Management – Project Management Institute. A visionary and a committed leader, who provides a helping hand in filling in the gaps between business and technology, qualified in all phases of the development cycle starting from the initial phase / costs’ definition and generation of requirements, through designing, resourcing, development, testing, training and implementation.

At ESKOM company, he assists clients in making their choices and in implementing the most optimal IT solutions for their business sector.

He graduated from the Technical University of Kraków as electric and computer engineer, as well as from the SGH Warsaw School of Economics where he has completed postgraduate studies in IT management of corporations.

Rafał Skóra

Senior IT Project Manager / Solution Architect, Eskom

14:15
- 15:00

Platform Intelligence solutions for OpenStack

Cloud native applications intend to provide much more flexibility than legacy application by operating on an elastic infrastructure and supporting additional features like scaling, alerting and failover. However, implementing these features based on manual operations is error prone and require administration effort. To make them automatic, and to follow Autonomic Computing principles including as Self-Defining, Context-Aware, Self-Configuring, Self-Healing, Self-Optimizing, and Self-Protecting, additional services have to be integrated into the platform. During presentation, we will focus on several use cases including predictive auto-scaling, storage space prediction and noisy neighbor detection will be discussed in relate to machine learning models oriented towards operational intelligence. In additional, Openstack services like Senlin, Aodh and Vitrage will be compared. Read more…

Dariusz Król joined Samsung R&D institute in Poland, Krakow in 2016 as a Senior Cloud and Big Data Architect. His current activities involves development of Database as a Service solution based on Openstack Trove, while in recent past he was also involved in various projects oriented towards analytical use cases. He is a Ph.D. in computer science since 2014 with specialization in scalability, data management and cloud and grid technologies. In 2014-2015, he was a postdoc at University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, where he participated in the PANORAMA (Predictive Modeling and Diagnostic Monitoring of Extreme Science Workflows) project, where he was responsible for performance monitoring and analysis of large-scale scientific workflows. Before joining Samsung Electronics, he was an assistant professor at AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland and a specialist at ACC Cyfronet AGH, which is the biggest academic computer center in Poland. He was involved in a number of international and national scientific projects regarding large scale computational infrastructure, data analysis, resource management and parallel computing. He is co-author of over 50 scientific articles published in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences proceedings.

Senior Systems Engineer with enterprise virtualization, containerization, private/public cloud and DevOps tools skillset. He was involved in a number of national-wide systems, now using that expertise to deploy, maintain and automate large-scale enterprise systems.

Ildikó started her journey with virtualization during the university years and has been in connection with this technology different ways since then. She started her career at a small research and development company in Budapest, where she was focusing on areas like system management and business process modeling and optimization. Ildikó got in touch with OpenStack when she started to work in the cloud project at Ericsson in 2013, she was a member of the Ceilometer and Aodh project core teams. She is now working for the OpenStack Foundation and she drives NFV related feature development activities in projects like Nova and Cinder, and beyond code and documentation contributions she is also very passionate about on boarding and training activities.

Kendall is an Upstream Developer Advocate at the OpenStack Foundation based in Seattle, WA. She first started working on Cinder and os-brick in the Liberty release and since then gotten involved in StoryBoard, the Women of OpenStack (WoO), the First Contact SIG, the Contributor Guide, and OpenStack Upstream Institute. She has also worked as an election official for TC and PTL elections (Pike-Rocky) and served as a track chair for the Barcelona, Boston, Sydney, and Vancouver summits.

When she is not evangelizing about the awesomeness of OpenStack, bringing people into the community, or working to make upstream development a friendlier place, she can be found reading Harry Potter, watching Doctor Who, or out on a photo taking adventure.

The OpenStack I18n is one of the biggest team in the OpenStack community. The people are mostly located in non-english speaking countries in different timezones around the planet. You can imagine, diversity is one of the main topics in our team. Different cultures, and different languages. How to manage this? The story goes back from the beginning as a contributor and the work as Project Team Lead in the last cycle.

Translating things in OpenStack are not only human work. It gives an insight into the technology behind it and a fully automatic deployment.

What Should Attendees Expect to Learn?

Join the OpenStack community as a contributor in a simply way: as a Translator. This session shows how it works. It will introduce the team with their work and tools. You can learn to work in a global community and transfer the working methods to your local team. Read more…

Frank Kloeker works at Deutsche Telekom as a Technology Manager for cloud applications. He is experienced in Cloud for 7 years, IT for 21 years and 31 years for Operations.

His active time in OpenStack Community began in 2015. He is one of active German translators in OpenStack I18n team, and also he contributes I18n toolings with puppet scripts for translation platform upgrade and translation checksite. Frank is currently PTL.

The Enterprise Working Group is his second workstream in the OpenStack Community. Target of this working group is to identify and remove barriers to Enterprise adoption and deployments of OpenStack because Frank worked in application operation for internet platforms for many years.

Third thing, he invented the Cloud-Kindergarten of Deutsche Telekom 2016. Young people like apprentices and students are trained on production platforms in OpenStack Operations and learning modern Cloud technologies and working in global teams.

Frank Kloeker

Technology Manager, Deutsche Telekom

16:00
- 16:45

Cluster management made doable

When it comes to managing a bunch of virtual servers like one resource, the market offers countless solutions like Heat, Senlin, Cloudify, Terraform etc. Yet, when faced with a challenge to pick one, that would suit our needs we found ourselves in quite a predicament. At DreamLab we are in charge of thousands of short-lived servers and we would like to manage clusters of servers in both our own infrastructure based on OpenStack as well as in the public cloud ecosystem where we use APIs. Our search for a scalable, plugin-oriented solution that allows for regular health checks, led us to create our own application that we’re releasing for the community to use.
In our presentation, we will go through available market solutions, our own choices and finally, we will show you tools that do the trick, so you can learn from it and manage your own servers efficiently, regardless of your IaaS.

A System Designer at DreamLab, with 12 years of experience in building core systems for Grupa Onet-RAS Polska and DreamLab.

24 hours is never enough to do eveything he should and/or would like to do. Dominik keeps finding more and more interesting things to learn, install or develop. His career included periods with more focus on programming and times with a bigger focus on system building and maintenance. He started his IT adventure by working on internal systems and AOL Server modules. He had a brief encounter with Perl and has spent some more time with C/C++, but now his heart is with Python.
Quite a large part of his working time he deals with object storage based on CEPH, IaaS built on OpenNebula and OpenStack solutions. Currently he is working on developing PaaS orchestration and monitoring system.

Krzysztof has over 12 years of professional experience. He started his technical journey with desktop ERP applications (C++, Delphi), then moved on to webapps (price comparison service, retail) mostly in Python and Ruby. Later it was the cloud that caught his attention for about 4 years so he focused on cloud machinery and developing private cloud. He gained administration skills (and patience) while managing a Novel-based network and then FreeBSD and Linux (system of choice) clusters. Whenever possible he tries to avoid hardware-ops tasks with, however, with little success so far, and still doesn’t remember MegaCli switches. In the meantime, he tests everything available from HN. Currently, as a System Designer at DreamLab Krzysztof is responsible for PaaS orchestration and a monitoring system.

Krzysztof Warunek

System Designer, DreamLab

16:00
- 16:45

Database as a Service solutions with OpenStack Trove

Databases are crucial and ubiquities elements of most applications running in the cloud. However, database management in single- or multi-node deployment scenarios requires expertise and deep understanding of the underlying infrastructure. The main goal of Database as a Service (DBaaS) is to deliver a service responsible for on-demand provisioning and management of various database management systems including SQL and NoSQL databases. Provided functionality of the service includes: provisioning of single and multi-instance deployments, scaling (out, up and in), backing up and recovery, and failover support with HA. During the presentation a DBaaS solution based on Openstack Trove will be described in the context of MariaDB, Cassandra and Redis. Comparisons against other solutions such as AWS RDS will be also discussed. Read more…

Computer science graduate at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow. During the studies and after graduation, closely associated with the IT industry.

He has 4 years of professional experience. At first worked as software engineer designing microservice-based applications for advertising companies. Later responsible for administration of virtual resource infrastructure in AWS cloud and deploying architectural components related to monitoring and centralized logging.

More than a year ago started the journey with OpenStack at Samsung R&D, working on a cloud project as a member of the core team building the Database as a Service platform for 5G requirements. He actively participates in the development of OpenStack Trove by enhancing its features in the scope of automated database provisioning, cluster management and data recovery. Broad database experience allows him to elaborate advanced solutions oriented to provide high data capacity and availability.

At the same time, he is pursuing a PhD in computer science in the field of NFV and multi-site cloud computing. As part of this venture, he had the opportunity to gain knowledge about a wide range of native cloud technologies, as well as interact with exotic OpenStack initiatives such as: Tacker, Trio2o and Tricircle.

Bartosz Żurkowski

Cloud and Big Data Engineer, Samsung

16:45
- 17:30

The road to OpenStack at UK largest Academic private cloud system: University of Edinburgh

This presentation aims to talk about the UK’s largest academic private cloud in production: University of Edinburgh’s OpenStack system.

The biggest challenge we faced was to be able to provide the University’s researchers with a more flexible self-served computing services. The OpenStack-based private cloud solution proposed by Sardina Systems was operational within 8 weeks from commencement of design process.

In the presentation we plan to cover the following for our audience:
– the predefined constrains that came from the university’s side
– the solution we have proposed to the university, compasing all 3 phases of OpenStack: deploy, operate and upgrade
– the benefits of getting an OpenStack-based private cloud system in the academic sector Read more…

Dr Kenneth Tan has been in the large scale systems sector for 18+ years.

At Sardina Systems, Kenneth leads a highly talented product development team, experienced in developing software targeting some of the largest supercomputers in the world, now building OpenStack automation software, to optimize OpenStack cloud operations.

He was previously with CloudFabriQ, BNP Paribas, OptimaNumerics, in product development and business development roles, involving products and services sold to major data center operators in automotive, energy, defence, meteo, finance. He has led teams in UK, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Germany.

Dr Kenneth Tan

Sardina Systems

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How to become OpenStack upstream developer – introduction and useful tips.

This presentation will bring you closer to the OpenStack community collaboration aspects.

As a core contributor to the neutron project I will give useful tips on how You can contribute to the OpenStack and what can be done to make code changes being approved and merged quickly.

Reshaping code is fun, but with support of useful tools it’s even greater joy, which you will learn during this talk from the OpenStack developer perspective. Read more…

In 2010 Slawek joined OVH first as 1st line of technical support and in 2013 became devops engineer in Public Cloud R&D team where he was involved in development of OpenStack-based Public Cloud service.
Since 2015 he is also active contributor and reviewer of OpenStack Neutron and OpenStack Shade/SDK projects as well as leader of Neutron QoS subteam.
In December 2017 he started serving OpenStack community as member of Neutron and SDK core reviewers teams.
He was welcome to Red Hat family in April 2018, where he works as senior software engineer and continues to develop networking solutions for OpenStack.

BlackStor is a DRBD-based Software Defined Storage (not just) for OpenStack, which was created and put into production by PROZETA working closely together with DRBD’s creators at LINBIT. Learn more about why to use SDS based on open-source technology which is backed by more than 10 years of development and over 250.000 successful installations. Read more…

Michal is an expert with more than 10 years of experience in cloud, infrastructure and content distribution services.

He served various positions in the field including Operations Director of Stream.cz, Operations Director at Uloz.to and SVP Online Services at Visual Unity. Michal is focused mainly on project and product management, operations, customer service and new business development.

Michal is an expert with more than 10 years of experience in cloud, infrastructure and content distribution services.

Intel Rack Scale design (RSD) is an industry blueprint of the concept known as _composable disaggregated infrastructure_. Unlike traditional servers, the RSD hardware resources like accelerators or network interfaces are not tightly tied to each server node. Instead, they are pooled together in the _resource pools_, and dynamically attached to the compute nodes when needed.

This presentation will introduce the audience to the Rack Scale Design and demonstrate the dynamic attachment of disaggregated resources to the node. Depending on the workload’s requirements, the PCIe Network Interface Card or the NVMe-over-Fabric volume will be attached to the compute node automatically – with no human intervention. Besides the demo, the presenter will show the implementation details and share the plans of upstreaming this integration. Read more…

Szymon has been working at Intel in cloud computing software since 2014. During that time, he was an OpenStack upstream contributor in Cinder (Quota API, Oslo-versioned objects) and Ironic (PCI devices recognition) projects. Besides upstreaming, he has also driven some projects around OpenStack, including enabling Intel Visual Compute Accelerator card in OpenStack with Ironic.

Recently, Szymon has become a member of Intel Rack Scale Design team and already contributed to performance improvement of testing environment, which speeded up most validation tests. Due to his experience with OpenStack, he got involved in introducing Intel Rack Scale Design volume driver for Cinder to enable NVMeoF volumes attachment in OpenStack environment.

In free time, his hobby is music – he sings well, plays piano and organ. He even took part in TV singing show, where he achieved high place.